November 2005 - Zope-Announce

Foundation status update
by Rob Page 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello everyone: We wanted to send an update on the status of the Zope Foundation. We circulated a number of documents to an advisory committee. The comments were excellent and precise. The comments also identified a number of documents that needed to be either developed or updated before we circulate the final set of documents to the community for review. This process is nearing completion. We will send the updated set of docs to the advisory committee, collect feedback, incorporated that feedback and then circulate those drafts to the community. Rough schedule: Nov 14: Circulate updated docs to advisory committee Nov 18: Feedback from committee collected Dec 25: Circulate doc set to community Thanks for your patience and attention! Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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FunkLoad 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 are out
by Stefane Fermigier 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

FunkLoad 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 (which fixed a bug in the previous release) are out. FunkLoad 1.3.0 introduces a new http-proxy based recorder for user sessions. It also fixes a couple of outstanding bugs. Grab FunkLoad 1.3.1 on: http://funkload.nuxeo.org/ About FunkLoad: FunkLoad is a open source functional and load web tester, written in Python, whose main use cases are functional and regression testing of web projects, performance testing by loading the web application and monitoring your servers, load testing to expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, and stress testing to overwhelm the web application resources and test the application recoverability, and writing web agents by scripting any web repetitive task, like checking if a site is alive.

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.1 released
by Andreas Jung 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.1. TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 or in Zope 3. What's new? - multi-field indexing and query support - multi-lingual support - configurable converters (through ZCML) - new indexing API (allowing you to hook your custom content types with TextIndexNG through Zope 3 adapters). Changes in V 3.1.1: - TextIndexNG3._apply_index() did not use the indexes default_encoding for converting non-unicode query strings to unicode - adapters for Plone content-types were not configured properly in adapters/configure.zcml - improved behaviour of the adapter for ATFile instances - minor fixes Requirements: - Zope 2.8+, Zope 3.1+ Download: http://sf.net/projects/textindexng Project page: http://opensource.zopyx.biz/OpenSource/TextIndexNG3 For installation and documentation issues refer to doc/README.txt from the archive. It's basically the same procedure as with former versions except you *need* to recompile the extension modules. Windows binaries of the required extension modules are currently not available (any volunteers?). TextIndexNG V 3 is published under the ZPL. Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Revised announcement for tonight's Fredericksburg ZPUG
by Gary Poster 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

This is a revised announcement for tonight's Fredericksburg ZPUG meeting. Andrew Sawyers is postponing his Squid and Zope presentation until the January ZPUG meeting (January 11, 2006). This is the new agenda: ------ Please join us November 9, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the sixth meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Using Zope for newspaper publishing! The dangers of object oriented inheritance! Free food! * Allen Schmidt, Sr. Programmer for Fredericksburg.com - the website for the Free Lance-Star - will present on "Using Zope for Newspaper Publishing". * Jim Fulton, CTO of Zope Corporation, will present an abbreviated version of the argument given in Clemens Szyperski's Component Software for why both inheritance and delegation (e.g. acquisition) cause tight coupling and therefore should be avoided except in special circumstances. * We will serve delicious fruit, cheese, and soft drinks.

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Zwiki 0.47 released, news
by Simon Michael 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Zwiki is a powerful, easy to use and administer, GPL wiki engine for Zope 2. It works in both standard Zope and CMF/Plone. Version 0.47 has been released at http://zwiki.org (details below) . It's been a quiet month at lake zwikibon... ..though, there was a quite a bit of translation activity. This month we had multiple contributions from Encolpe Degoute, Jens Nachtigall, Frank Laurijssens and T.C. Chou. There were 28 commits in total. The wiki and discussions have been pretty much problem- and spam-free. Useful urls: * http://zwiki.org - start here * http://zwiki.org/ZwikiFarm - free experimental zwiki hosting * http://joyful.com - zwiki demos and other wikis * http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com - blog * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwiki - wikipedia entry * http://joyful.com/darcs - darcs repository interface Zwiki 0.47.0 2005/11/06 Summary Allow limited-depth hierarchy display, translation updates, bugfixes. Upgrade notes If you have some #NNN issue links which are not working, the #1179 bugfix will take effect when you edit that page (or visit PAGE/clearCache). Changes Installing * fix Add ZWiki failure on older zopes due to attempted use of btree folders - just always use ordinary folders (#1185) * don't warn about Regexps.py when there is no locale configured; log any locale/regexp-related problems at DEBUG level Editing * prevent wiki-linking in reST literal blocks, like STX * don't add "links updated" log note everywhere during renames Page hierarchy * subtopics() and offspring() can now take a depth argument to display hierarchy only to a certain depth * be a little smarter about not showing subtopics twice when displayed with dtml Mail * don't translate "(edit)" in mailout subjects Issue tracking * make #NNN issue links work again (#1179) General - i18n * update pot and po files * remove stray zope 3 messages from pot and po files (#1188) * replace defaults in po files (#1190) * update make rules for i18n * zh-CN/zh-TW translations updated (T.C. Chou) * update french translation up to 0.46.0 (Encolpe Degoute) * dutch translation update (Frank Laurijssens) * german translation update (Jens Nachtigall) General - skins * Hide access keys when printing (Encolpe Degoute) * page template cleanups and syntax fixes (Encolpe Degoute) General * add a DEBUG logging function

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zopebot on irc
by Simon Michael 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

You may have noticed a strange new metal personage hanging out in #zwiki, #zope and #zope-web: zopebot. (17:01:13) *sm:* @? (17:01:14) *zopebot:* Z.O.P.E.B.O.T.: Zombie Optimized for Peacekeeping, Efficient Battle and Online Troubleshooting at your service. I have been running for 1 week, 0 days, 16 hours, 22 minutes, and 59 seconds. Begin commands with @, or my name, or priv msg me if you are registered. To find commands: list, list <plugin>, or help <plugin> <command>. zopebot can do many things, such as search google or major zope sites, but generally it stays quiet unless you talk to it. Mainly what it does is watch rss feeds and announce interesting changes in the channel as they happen (more or less).

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.0 released
by Andreas Jung 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Fro I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.0. TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 or in Zope 3. What's new? - multi-field indexing and query support - multi-lingual support - configurable converters (through ZCML) - new indexing API (allowing you to hook your custom content types with TextIndexNG through Zope 3 adapters). Changes in V 3.1.0: - added relevance ranking based on the cosine-measure - new query options 'ranking' and 'ranking_maxhits' (see doc/README.txt for details) - Plone integration: created TextIndexNG3 instance are now created to support relevance ranking out-of-the-box. The TextIndexNG3 configlet inside the Plone configuration now allows you to re-create TextIndexNG3 instances without touching the ZMI. - Plone integration: better support for indexing binary content stored as ATFile instances through providing a direct Zope 3 adapter implementation (see adapters/ plone_adapters.py). This should dramatically improve the indexing result compared to using PortalTransforms. - Plone integration: all Plone content-types are now being indexed with TextIndexNG3 out-of-the-box by the provided adapter. - Bugfix: indexing binary content no longer raises a ComponentLookupError if a corresponding converter could not be found - lots of minor fixes Requirements: - Zope 2.8+, Zope 3.1+ Download: http://sf.net/projects/textindexng Project page: http://opensource.zopyx.biz/OpenSource/TextIndexNG3 For installation and documentation issues refer to doc/README.txt from the archive. It's basically the same procedure as with former versions except you *need* to recompile the extension modules. Windows binaries of the required extension modules are currently not available (any volunteers?). TextIndexNG V 3 is published under the ZPL. Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CMF 1.5.5-beta released
by Jens Vagelpohl 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

The CMF developer community and Zope Corporation are pleased to announce the release of version CMF-1.5.5-beta of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). This release is intended for testing purposes only; we do not recommend deploying it to production servers. The final release of version 1.5.5 is expected in the third week of November. What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Where do I get it? Download it from http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5-beta Points of interest include: - "Windows ZIP file", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5-beta/CMF-1.5.5-beta.zip - "Unix tar/gzip archive", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5-beta/CMF-1.5.5- beta.tar.gz . - "Release notes", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5-beta/README.txt - "Change history", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5-beta/CHANGES.txt - "Installation instructions", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5-beta/INSTALL.txt Where do I go to learn more? The CMF mailing list (zope-cmf(a)zope.org) has many participants who are active in supporting the CMF. ...to report bugs? The "CMF Collector":http://zope.org/Collectors/CMF is the place to report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!) --------- Jens Vagelpohl jens(a)dataflake.org

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Five 1.2b and 1.3b released!
by Philipp von Weitershausen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

The Five team is happy to announce the release of two Five beta versions today, Five 1.2b and 1.3b! What is Five ------------ Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today. Among others, it allows you to use Zope 3 interfaces, ZCML-based configuration, adapters, browser pages (including skins, layers, and resources), automated add and edit forms based on schemas, object events, as well as Zope 3-style i18n message catalogs. We've tried to keep the Five experience as close to Zope 3 as possible, so this means that what you learn while using Five should also be applicable to Zope 3, and viceversa. More information about Five can be found on our website, http://codespeak.net/z3/five/. Five 1.2 -------- Five 1.2 is the last release line of Five to work with Zope 2.8 and its included Zope X3 3.0. It does not work on Zope 2.7 anymore (use Five 1.1 if you're bound to Zope 2.7) Compared to the 1.1 release a month ago, it introduces the following compelling list of new features: * Local site support Five now supports local sites in Zope 2. Sites are a concept known from Zope 3 and similar to CMF's sites (only that they can be nested). Thanks to Sidnei da Silva for the initial development back in March, Lennart Regebro and Philipp von Weitershausen for bringing it up to date for inclusion into Five 1.2. * Improved event support Five can now make standard Zope 2 containers (aka object managers) send Zope 3-style events for adding, moving, copying and deleting contained objects, instead of calling their manage_afterAdd, manage_beforeDelete, etc. methods. Thanks to Florent Guillaume for thinking through this non-trivial matter and implementing it. * Marker interfaces utility Five now includes a feature known from Zope X3 3.0's introspector, the ability to set marker interfaces on objects to influence their behaviour (such as view or adapter look-up). This also includes a browser page with a page template macro for doing so through-the-web. This feature is based on Sidnei da Silva's Plone-based product Flon. Thanks to him for the original implementation as well as Godefroid Chapelle, Whit Morriss and Yvo Schubbe for bringing it to Five 1.2. * Class registration through ZCML It is now possible to register Zope 2 classes through ZCML so that they show up in the ZMI as addable meta types. This basically obsolete's the boiler-plate ``initialize()`` function in products' ``__init__.py`` files, as well as equipping classes with a ``meta_type`` in the first place. Thanks to Yvo Schubbe for suggesting and implementing this great helper for cleaning out Zope 2 boiler plate code out of products. * New test runner Five 1.2 (and only 1.2) includes a forked copy of Zope 3.2's improved test runner which brings, among others, better doctest debugging and support for running tests on different levels and layers. Thanks to Tres Seaver for integrating this into Five 1.2. For more information please consult the CHANGES document: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/CHANGES.html Five 1.2b can be downloaded at http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.2b.tgz. Five 1.3 -------- Five 1.3 is a straight port of Five 1.2 to Zope 3.2 which will be included in this December's Zope 2.9 release. Five 1.3 itself will also be part of Zope 2.9. It does not introduce any new features compared to Five 1.2, however, some restructuring has been made: * Most of the event work has been folded into Zope 2. That means that Zope 2.9 will ship with event-enabled object managers out of the box! * Several legacy packages were removed from Five as they are now included in Zope 2, such as Zope 3-style interfaces for OFS et.al. as well as the new test runner We are not providing a downloadable tarball of Five 1.3b. Instead it has been integrated into Zope 2.9 with which it will ship. To try out Zope 2.9, you have to currently check out the Zope 2 trunk from the subversion repository. About the Zope 3 Base --------------------- Five is part of the *Zope 3 Base* project, which aims to offer an approachable area for developers of Zope 3 related software. More about the Zope 3 base and its projects can be found on the project website, http://codespeak.net/z3/.

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Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG Meeting: November 9, 7:30-9:00 PM
by Gary Poster 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Please join us November 9, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the sixth meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Squid and Zope! Using Zope for newspaper publishing! The dangers of object oriented inheritance! Free food! * Andrew Sawyers will discuss using the open source cache server Squid with Zope, including a discussion of the O'Reilly book about Squid. * Allen Schmidt, Sr. Programmer for Fredericksburg.com - the website for the Free Lance-Star - will present on "Using Zope for Newspaper Publishing". * Jim Fulton, CTO of Zope Corporation, will present an abbreviated version of the argument given in Clemens Szyperski's Component Software for why both inheritance and delegation (e.g. acquisition) cause tight coupling and therefore should be avoided except in special circumstances. * We will serve delicious fruit, cheese, and soft drinks. We've had a nice group for all the meetings. Please come and bring friends! We also are now members of the O'Reilly and Apress user group programs, which gives us nice book discounts (prices better than Amazon's, for instance) and the possibility of free review copies. Ask me about details at the meeting if you are interested. General ZPUG information When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00. Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street; Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab) Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python or Zope. Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com)

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